Forest of Memory
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1995
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 1995
32 pages
22 illustrations in colour and 19 black and white
out of print
This cemetery – Skogskyrkogården – was designed and built over a period of almost fifty years by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) and Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975). It occupies a site gashed by three gravel pits and surrounded by over a hundred hectares of woodland at Stockholm/Enskede. It was commissioned (1915) by Stockholm City Council and contains 100,000 tombs, half of which are private.
The site combines the natural landscape (light and the forest) and the artificial landscape (the curved edge of the gravel pits) to create a cultural landscape capable of conveying a sacred dimension, ecschewing the conventional iconography of Christian burial in favour of a dialogue between earth and sky, wood and lawn, shade and light and between the dense vertical weft of the tall dark trees and the horizontal surfaces on which the tombstones are laid.
Contents
Motivazione della giuria
Luigi Latini, Il cimitero della foresta di Enskede (Stoccolma)
Caroline Constant, Verso un paesaggio spirituale
Cronologia
Maria Westerdahl, La gestione della foresta di pini
Janne Ahlin, Committenti, giurati, vincitori del concorso per il cimitero di Enskede
Börjie Olson, Il governo del cimitero (1994-1998)
Sigurt Lewerentz, opere principali/progetti per altri cimiteri
Bibliografia
